Wizard: I Can Refine Everything

Chapter 98: Chapter 93: Apprentice War (12)_2

Anderson and Aldo exchanged glances, unable to fathom what Richard was really scheming.

“Both of you, we’re not Wizards, we’re stronger than ordinary people, but we still need to eat and drink,” Richard spoke leisurely, “White Wizard Apprentices can rely on Magic Arrays to solve their drinking water problem, but they can’t conjure food out of thin air.

Given the idiocy of this group of White Wizard Apprentices, I doubt they brought much in the way of dry food.

Therefore, going out to gather food is essential.”

Richard left the rest unsaid, but Anderson and Aldo had already grasped his meaning.

If the White Wizard Apprentices came out to gather food, then they could take the opportunity to attack.

But Anderson found a problem.

“But what if they don’t drag their feet? If they choose to consolidate their Apprentices and quickly take down our resource points, what do we do then?”

“They will surely drag it out for a while,” Richard shook his head, “they still have some who have never seen the battlefield. If they attack rashly and end up fleeing, wouldn’t we win directly?”

“Moreover,” Richard pulled a Magic Stone out of his pocket, “they need to replenish their Magic Stones, don’t they?”

Due to the large number of Apprentices at the White Wizard Academy, apart from a few top Apprentices, the rest had far fewer Magic Stones than the Black Wizard Apprentices.

This resulted in many White Wizard Apprentices running out of Magic Stone reserves after a day and night of intense combat.

“That makes sense. What’s your plan?”

Anderson looked at Richard.

Although they were both leaders among the Apprentices, Richard always gave him an inscrutable feeling.

This feeling didn’t come from power, but seemed like an intellectual suppression.

“It’s simple,” Richard clapped his hands, “we’ll only defend two resource points and let the White Wizards attack the others.

Then we’ll split some of our elite Apprentices into small teams to harass the White Wizard Apprentices venturing out from their resource points. We’ll kill as many White Wizard Apprentices as possible.”

The two commanding Apprentices thought for a moment and immediately realized it was indeed a good idea.

Elite Apprentices meant battles could end quickly, and they could swiftly disengage when pursuing.

“I agree.”

“I also agree.”

Richard stood up, “Since you both agree, let’s get started.”

…

Just as Richard predicted, the Apprentices from Clear Frost and Aurora did not make any major moves after their return. And since the Secret Keeper Academy began to focus on defense due to Magic Stone consumption, only small groups of White Wizard squads went out daily for food hunting near the resource points.

Wizard Apprentices are not yet Wizards; they can’t rely solely on Magic Power to sustain their bodies.

Therefore, food and water remain essential for the survival of Wizard Apprentices.

When the White Wizard squads went hunting for food, the Black Wizards naturally wouldn’t sit idle.

Three Academies from the Black Wizard Camp selected ten elite Black Wizard Apprentice teams, each with five members, including Apprentices from five different Schools to handle any situation. These people were sent to hunt near the White Wizard resource points, attacking the White Wizard Apprentices emerging from those points.

Meanwhile, the remaining Black Wizards began fortification construction.

The Academies of Void and Annihilation, having suffered great losses, decided to defend a resource point together, while Black Tower Wizard Academy defended another by itself.

Thus, the White and Black Wizard sides began a temporary standoff.

…

“Run, Alisa!” a White Wizard Apprentice roared, turning to pounce on the attacking Black Wizard Apprentice. His figure quickly grew in size during the lunge, transforming into a muscular, hairy Beastman in an instant.

Clearly, this was a Bloodline Alchemy Apprentice.

Facing him, the five Black Wizard Apprentices skillfully widened the distance, and then three Elemental Spells blasted onto his body. The remaining two Apprentices pointed toward the fleeing White Wizard Apprentice as black chains emerged from the ground and wrapped around the White Wizard Apprentice like a parasite. The other simply and cleanly followed up with another Elemental Spell.

After the hunt was completed, the Black Wizard Apprentices expertly stripped the White Wizard Apprentice’s body clean and then set a Magic Array trap underneath the corpse.

“Alright,” the apprentice setting up the magic array trap whispered.

After speaking, the five Black Wizard Apprentices silently disappeared into the dense forest.

Before long, a group of White Wizard Apprentices found their way here.

“Damn, let those bastards escape again!” The leading White Wizard Apprentice cursed angrily, with the apprentices following him also showing faces full of rage.

This was already the fifth Black Wizard assassination incident this month.

“Captain, no traces were found,” reported one White Wizard Apprentice.

“Damn it, collect the bodies and take them back.”

As the White Wizard Apprentices were moving the bodies, the magic array trap set by the Black Wizards triggered, and the exploding Fire Element Spell instantly blew the nearest apprentice into chunks.

“Awen!” The captain’s eyes bulged in frenzy as he unleashed spells wildly into the surrounding dense forest.

But by this moment, the Black Wizard squad had already moved far away, rendering his venting utterly futile.

…

“The fifth Black Wizard assassination incident,” Balto handed a piece of paper to Orey, “This time the Black Wizards left traps on the bodies, causing one search member to be blown to death.”

“Okay, I got it,” Orey took the paper and glanced at it, massaging his temples with a headache.

“Is this war?” Balto sat next to Orey, his heart churning with waves.

For victory, the Black Wizard Apprentices could cold-heartedly lay traps on the corpses of their own kind, which Balto found somewhat hard to accept.

Even war should have some bottom lines.

“Yes, this is war,” Orey answered offhandedly, “The purpose of war is victory, and for this goal, we should be unscrupulous.”

“I understand that, but I still find it somewhat unacceptable,” Balto exhaled deeply, as if trying to expel all the frustration from his heart.

“We’re all apprentices, all human, why should things be done so… despicably.”

“Despicably?” Orey scoffed, “Balto, you’re too naive.

You think what is this war simulating? What is it for?

This war is to simulate the Plane Battlefield, where on the Plane Battlefield, the methods of those alien race monsters are a hundred times more despicable! A hundred times more vicious! They will kill wizards without any psychological burden and then use our corpses for their feasting.

If you can’t even accept this, how will you manage yourself when you get to the Plane Battlefield? Are you going to request to be transferred to rear logistics for a lifetime?”

As a scion of a Wizard Family, Orey had learned about the cruelty of the Plane War from his elders.

On those gruesome battlefields, these selected wizards were just like small soldiers, dying in droves. Even Great Wizards might fall.

The methods of those alien race monsters were countless, and sometimes for a wizard in their grasp, even death became a luxury.

Now this was nothing more than using corpses to set traps, how far had they gone?

Balto had no reply and shifted the conversation to countermeasures.

“This can’t go on, we have to find a way to deal with these Black Wizards.”

“A way…” Orey pondered for a moment and said, “I have a suggestion, let’s group everyone who goes out to gather food together, don’t disperse, and collect in the form of small troops.” @@novelbin@@

Balto frowned, “That would be too inefficient, there won’t be enough food.”

“Not enough?” Orey smirked coldly, “We are in extraordinary times, we should use extraordinary measures.

Collect all of the camp’s food, and distribute it on a set schedule and amount to each person daily. As long as everyone is kept from starving, that’s enough.

In extraordinary times, everyone should endure a bit.”

“What about the captain?” Balto asked.

“The captain?” Orey chuckled, “Even I am subject to rationing, could the captain’s position be higher than mine?”